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The biggest issue I see with the new MBP is that the iPhone 7 (released only a couple months prior) is essentially incompatible out of the box. The connectors are incompatible, and the headphones are not interchangeable without a dongle.

Apple used to go to great lengths to make their devices work great together, so it boggles the mind that the iPhone and Mac teams didn't coordinate the switch to USB-C.

The article even links to another post which makes it seem like Google's Nexus works better with the MBP than the iPhone - https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-...

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On the other hand, I can quickcharge my Google Pixel XL with the MacBook charger, which is convenient.

Makes you think huh?

I don't get it, are you saying Apple should've shipped 2 Lightning cables in the iPhone 7 box? One that would be useless unless you happened to buy a USB-C MacBook?

The iPhone is a device for everybody, and accordingly, it ships with a charging/data cable that fits the most ports across all modern computers and chargers.

They should have put a USB-c into the iPhone.

But then they can't have their special snowflake ecosystem of overpriced accessories.

I agree but as I wrote in another comment, I fear they never will because it's thicker than Lightning (and USB Mini) and they're obsessed with thinness.

Okay, put a USB-C port on the phone. Now what? Make the other end also USB-C so it plugs into virtually nothing?

Also, weren't we talking about the non-phone side in the first place?

A better move might have been to ship it with a USB-C/Thunderbolt cable, and a small adapter for USB-C -> USB. That way it still works out of the box, they get to keep their dongle eco-system and it pushes the new USB-C standard and accordingly both the Macbook and Macbook Pro.

He/she means iPhone should have come out with usb-c port instead of lightning port

Who plugs their phone into their mac anymore?

iOS developers, but even those days are probably numbered. I remember XCode having a wireless build-and-run-on-device option in an old beta a few versions ago.

All iOS developers?

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